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going in Sept ... to Bellagio, Sondrio, Firenze, Perugia and Roma

DH has family there so its really great.

I would love to know some more about birthing options and what they do in Italy though ... do you have an obstetrician? or midwifery care? what is the care like? what kind of homebirth rates do they have? (I have endless questions )

Oh, Rome is beutiful!! Florence is nice too; I've never been in the others city instead.
Have a nice staying in Italy!! Hope the weather will be better than now!

I'm glad to answer you! So ask what you want!!

In general in Italy women choose a gyn that follow the mum during the pregnancy with doctor's appointment, examination and ultrasound.
Than you can decide to attend a course where obstetrician and others specialists explain some themes concerning pregnancy like as birth, labour, baby blues, breastfeeding, baby's needs and care and so on. In this course the obstetrician told me the rate of homebirth is increasing: she said that nowadays women want a birth more natural is possible; in the hospital where I decided to give birth they don't use epidural anaesthesia and try to avoid C-section.

Hi everyone i live in melbourne am a mum to a 20 month old little boy and have a baby girl wh sadlyo gained her angel wings born sleeping at 35weeks on 31/1/11. Due to a liver condition called obstetric cholestasis which developed unknown to me in my liver in the later part of my pregnancy.
I am happy to talk about anything including the loss as i believe talking about loss helps xxxx

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